Today marks the first official day of operations for the new San Diego Central Library @ Joan ^ Irwin Jacobs Common, following a weekend of grand opening festivities and a sneak peek of the ground floor.

Earlier this year, Pinterest moved from Palo Alto into a converted warehouse in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood. In addition, many of the most promising young tech companies coming out of the Bay Area — Twitter, Zynga, Yelp, Square, and Salesforce — have chosen to locate or

Don’t get me wrong: I love Christmas. I really, really do. And I love Costco, too. I go often, and I look forward to every visit. What irks me, though, is the Christmas display on Labor Day weekend. Actually, it’s been up since mid August, and goes